Yair Klein and other extraditable

By Alfredo Rangel

This case recalls that of the three Irishmen, James Monaghan, Martin McCauley and Niall Connally, convicted in absentia of training the FARC.

Saturday 28 August 2010

It is very commendable attitude of the government of Russia to seize and prepare to Colombia to extradite a fugitive from justice our Yair Klein. Hopefully other governments have the same arrangement with the Colombian justice system to arrest and extradite fugitives to the three Irishmen were convicted here instructing the FARC terrorist tactics.

As is known, Yair Klein was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison by a judge in Manila for training irregular groups then funded by Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, including drug lords. These bands then bloodied the country. But the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, echoing the national and international NGOs that unfairly accuse the Colombian State to be a massive and systematic violator of human rights ruled that Russia could not extradite Klein to Colombia because his life was in danger and could be subjected to torture and mistreatment by our government officials.
Definitely, no one knows who she works: Mr. Klein, who sponsored the violation of human rights in Colombia, now relies on the arguments of the NGOs advocating for human rights, to prevent the Colombian judicial action against him. However, the Russian government said that Klein failed to prove the risk he would if he were extradited. Moreover, the Colombian Foreign Ministry has said that Klein would be held in maximum security prison Cómbita, Boyacá, which according to the UN has the highest qualifying for the protection of human rights. Hopefully, then, that the Strasbourg Court will grant more credit to legitimate governments that certain NGOs and proceed to the extradition of Klein.
This case recalls that of the three Irishmen, James Monaghan, Martin McCauley and Niall Connaly, who in absentia after his escape, were sentenced in December 2004 on appeal by the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Bogota, having trained for five weeks to the FARC in the manufacture of explosives and use of unconventional weapons. This training included the development and use of the infamous bomb cylinders with the FARC destroyed dozens of public buildings and hundreds of humble homes in dozens of rural villages, leading to massacres like Bojaya in Chocó. According to BBC News, Irish, members of the IRA, using Colombia as a testing ground to test new weapons and explosives. And according to British security forces quoted by the Sunday Telegraph, these subjects were rehearsing in Colombia a "super equivalent of a small nuclear explosion that could kill hundreds of people and destroying a bunker." (Eduardo Mackenzie, The FARC, a terrorist failure, pg. 491). But the trial judge acquitted them for lack of evidence (how strange, no?), Accepting their argument that they were doing "ecotourism." And while the ruling was the second instance, it flew.
The terrorist mission in Colombia was authorized by the leaders of the IRA at the time they conducted peace talks with the British government. And apparently this was a covert operation to fund, with resources from the FARC drug trafficking, kidnapping and other criminal acts, political campaigns of Sinn Fein, political wing of the IRA. In fact, Martin McCauley, one of the three men in Colombia, was campaign director for Sinn Fein (Loretta Napoleoni, Jihad, p.. 85). At the time, the Colombian prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant against the three men, but support for terrorism of the FARC was covert under the IRA peace agreements with the British government. And so we stayed up until today, no truth, no justice, no repair. But no NGO has called for it.
Yair Klein’s extradition would be a good precedent for other governments to address the claims of Colombia and we handed over a first world city fugitive from justice who walks our free and unpunished by the planet, then to have supported terrorist brutality here . It would be proof that the vaunted global justice is not just for those of poncho. For this reason there are a handful of foreigners extraditable.